Senior Talent Manager

You'll take the lead on our approach to talent through our central projects, partnership projects and the ASOS Insiders, working with the Social & Editorial Lead to develop long-tail (i.e. 6-monthly) focuses as well as develop a strategic social talent approach based on channel best-practice Working closely with the social managers and their teams, your team will be responsible for all talent output. You will have direct reports to manage and support in their career growth, but you will also be required to work with and empower other junior members of the wider team to understand the ASOS talent approach. You will also be the point of contact for talent across ASOS and the external contact for the ASOS Insider Programme, so you will be required to deal with multiple peers and senior stakeholders across different verticals.,

• Understand the needs of a project to identify and present fresh, relevant talent aligned with the brand to key stakeholders on a project-by-project basis
• Complete end-to-end talent management. Talent discovery, briefing, negotiation, deal closing, contracting, content delivery & management and financing.
• Relationship management - working with talent agents, talent themselves and internal stakeholders to always ensure our talent approach is in line with our target audience
• Work with legal team to develop talent specific contract templates and ensure all talent are contracted for their deliverables
• Work directly with finance team on payment terms, schedules and delivery, to ensure all talent (or representatives) are paid within the right time frame
• Co-ordinate budgets with the IPs and core project team to ensure talent spend remains within forecast
• Work cross-functionally with relevant team Leads to assist and execute their strategic plans for talent and influencers across our platforms and for our brand partners
• Management of your direct reports - helping them with their career progression, performance reviews and training/developing their skills in the role
• Ensure your direct reports are supported in their job role and are able to carry out their deliverables
• Help build the talent team strategically to ensure we have the right people to support us across all business needs
• Support the Senior Brand Content Talent Manager with talent deliverables for non-social channels where appropriate
• Be a constant champion for talent in the business, with one eye on what our competitors are doing
• Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.